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Vancouver Fans Riot as Canucks Lose Stanley Cup [PHOTOS]

Soon after the Vancouver Canucks lost game seven of the Stanley Cup hockey series to the Boston Bruins, rioting broke out. As the violence became more intense, we found numerous pictures on photo-sharing sites such as Twitpic and yfrog.

As you can see in the picture above and in the gallery below, a car was set on fire, a truck was flipped over, and when police entered the area of downtown Vancouver with full riot gear, crazed fans were throwing beer bottles and shoes at their plastic shields, according to CTV News.

As the rioting intensified, so did the volume of user content on Twitter and Facebook. Even the Vancouver Police Department used Twitter to express its disappointment, tweeting, "So sad watching our #VPD cars on fire and how quickly people can turn from law abiding to law breaking. #canucksriot."

Via Twitter, the VPD also encouraged witnesses of the riot to hold onto their photos and videos so they can later identify suspects in them. On Thursday, the VPD plans to tweet instructions on how to submit photos and videos as evidence.

Some rioters posed for pictures that were subsequently posted on Facebook, which may allow police to catch rioters more easily in the aftermath.

The rioting intensified as the night progressed, with rioters looting an electronics store and others, reports indicate. At one point, police declared an area in downtown Vancouver an "illegal assembly zone," according to The New York Times.

Pictures and video we found were sourced from people who were observing the riot firsthand and then uploaded their content to YouTube, Twitpics and yfrog.

Huge Vancouver Riot 2011 Stanley Cup loss Part 1

TIM HORTONS BROKEN GLASS VANCOUVER RIOT 2011

"READ DESC FROM A LIVE WITNESS OF WHAT HAPPENED. i actually wanted to see downstairs The vancouver riot 2011 all because they lost to the bruins...losers.

TEENANGERS WERE IN TIM HORTONS AND THEN THE GIRL GOT ALL MAD AT HER BOYFRIEND AND POURED HER WATERBOTTLE ON HIS HEAD. HE GOT SO MAD HE STARTED PUNCHING HER AND CRAP, THEN EVERYONE ELSE STARTED FIGHTING AND A GUY GOT HIS HEAD THROWN INTO THE GLASS AND IT SHATTERED. MOMENTS LATER WE SAW THE POLICE COME. THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME BY OUR NEIGHBOUR ;)"

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"Vancouver riot video from english bay"

4yr boy cries over Canucks Stanley Cup Final loss to Boston Bruins

"My son's reaction to the Vancouver Canucks loss to Boston in the Stanley Cup Final."

FROM 1994: Stanley Cup Riot In Vancouver - 1994

"Game 7 with the Vancouver Canucks vs New York Rangers on June 14, 1994. After the game, things got quite ugly here in Vancouver! I recorded it the next day straight from the newscast on BCTV. For the record, I was disgusted with the whole ordeal!"

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